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Global and UK partners of the HSBC Water Programme (HWP) gathered in London to celebrate exceeding their five year goals.

HWP is a five year, US$100m programme in partnership with Earthwatch, WaterAid and WWF, three of the world’s most respected environmental and sustainable development organisations, and over 60 other NGOs.

Since 2011, Brooklyn raised photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz has travelled to eight countries for his long- term photographic project, Water. This summer, he focused on New York’s waterways and water challenges.

Drought and desertification causes soils to erode or disappear, removes drinking water, reduces biodiversity and degrades agricultural land to the extent that 12 million hectares are lost. Earthwatch’s programmes take action to manage current and future drought challenge around the world.

In our latest blog post (complete with video!), Dr. Bernat Claramunt Lopez, Earthwatch’s lead scientist for the expedition Wildlife in the Changing Andorran Pyrenees, explains the services these landforms provide for both animals and humans, and how climate change may affect them.

Years of planning ended in two weeks of wrangling, debates, coalitions, late nights, deadlines, drafting and redrafting the UN climate agreement was finally signed on Sunday. But what does the UN climate agreement mean for individuals and the private sector?

After two weeks of climate negotiations in Paris, nearly 200 nations came together to sign an historic agreement to stem the effects of climate change. On Friday, December 18th, between 1:00 and 3:00 p.m., Dr. Bill Moomaw – a climate expert and Chair of the Science Committee at Earthwatch – will be hosting an “Ask Me Anything” event on Reddit – an online forum where he will answer any and all questions about the implications of the new agreement. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Bill that gives some background on the climate talks.

I crouched low in the grass at the edge of the nets, clutching my radio--and that's when we heard the signal: the herd was closing in. A cloud of dust rose on the horizon. Nine argali sheep--the largest wild sheep in the world--ran towards us across the rocky terrain, followed closely by several Mongolian horsemen.

This multimedia story takes a closer look at Churchill, Manitoba as a “canary in the coal mine” of the large-scale challenge of climate change. Filled with images, videos, and vignettes about Earthwatch volunteers in Churchill, pick and choose what you want to read--or read the whole thing through.

Hopkinton, MA, December 9, 2014 – EMC Corporation, Pivotal, and the Earthwatch Institute, in association with the Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park, today announced Big Data vs. Climate Change: EMC & Citizen Scientists Team Up. This new program, announced in conjunction with the White House Climate Data Initiative, will enable the study of interactions between nature and climate and promote the engagement of citizen scientists using big data lakes, analytic tools and visualizations.